Bottle



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A. ROSEDALE.

BOTTLE Patented Apr. 21, 1896.

ANDREW. B.GRAHAM. PNDTD'UTNQWASHINGTDK'LC UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

A ADOLPII ROSEDALE, OF Sl-IREVEPORT, LOUISIANA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TOFRANK S. EINSTEIN, OF SAVANNAH, GEORGIA.

BOTTLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part Of Letters Patent N0. 558,523, dated April21, 1896.

Applicationfiled July 22, 1895. fierial No. 556,746. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ADOLPH ROSEDALE, a citizen of the United States,residing at Shreveport, in the parish of Oaddo and State of Louisiana,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bottles; and I dohereby declare the following to be a full,clear,

and exact description of the invention, suchas will enable'othersskilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to improvements in bottles, jugs, demijohns, andother like articles; and it is intended to provide a simple means forpreventing the said article or articles from being refilled withoutdetriment to the labels.

Thesaid invention consists in providing two or more apertures in theside of the neck of the bottle, the top of the neck being made integralwith the body of the bottle and closed, and the bottles being emptiedand filled through the said lateral orifices.

The bottle is closed by a suitable cap.

Reference is had to the accompanying drawings, in which the same partsare indicated by the same letters throughout the several views.

Figure 1 represents a perspective view of a bottle constructed inaccordance with my invention, the cap being shown as detached from thebottle. Fig. 2 represents a vertical section through the axis of thebottle and cap shown in Fig. 1, and Fig. 3represents a section along theline 3 3 of Fig. 2 and looking down.

A represents a bottle which is provided with a neck d, slotted at c".There may be any desired number of these slots, but preferably two orfour, and the said slots should preferably be arranged on opposite sidesof the axis of the bottle, so that the liquid may flow out at oneorifice and the air fiow in through the opposite orifice when thecontents of the bottle are being poured out.

The neck of the bottle is preferably provided with a coarsescrew-thread, as shown, adapted to engage in a corresponding screwthreadI) in the cap B, but the neck of the bottle may be made plain, and thecap made to fit snugly thereon, if desired, or it may be lined with softelastic material, such as rubber or cork, or any other desired means ofmaking a tight junction between the cap and the bottle may be adopted,if desired.

The top of the cap, when a screw-thread is 5 used, is preferablyprovided with a milled head I).

In order to make a tighter joint, a packingring 0, of rubber or othersuitable material, may be used, if desired, against which the cap 6 ispressed down when in the closed position, as shown in Fig 2.

These slots or holes a are made too small to receive a funnel, and areso arranged that it would ordinarily become necessary to im- 6 merse thebottle base downward in the liquid with which it is to be filled untilthe said liquid rises over the lower portion of one or more of the slotsor holes, when it will begin to flow into the bottle. 7

The label to be affixed should be printed wholly or in part with somepigment that will run when moistened-such, for instance, as the ordinaryred copying-ink used by printers.

Thus it will be seen that it will ordinarily 7 be impossible to refillone of these bottles without immersing the same in liquid, and when thebottle is immersed in liquid the label thereon will be so disfigured asto show the marks of said immersion; or the labels used with this classof bottles may be printed in such colors as to run when immersed in theliquid intended to be contained in the bottle. Furthermore, if the labelbe taken off the bottle while it might be refilled with any liquid,

this would Work no injury to the manufacturer whose trade-mark was shownon the label.

While I have particularly described my said invention with reference tobottles, it 0 will be obvious that the same might be applied to jugs,demijohns, kegs, vials, and

other packages intended to contain liquids.

It will be'obvious that various modifications might be made which couldbe used with- 5 in combination with a cap for closing thoseslots, and alabel adapted to be discolored by the immersion of the bottle in theliquid to be contained therein, substantially as described.

2. The combination with a bottle closed at the top and provided with ascrew-threaded neck, with a plurality of small slots in said neck, of ascrew-threaded cap adapted to screw down over and close said slots, anda packing-ring secured around the neck of said bottle and adapted to bepressed upon by said cap when the latter is in the closed position,substantially as described.

3. A bottle or similar article for holding liquids, closed at the topand provided with a plurality of small vertical slots in the neckthereof, extending outwardly through the sides of said neck, a cap forclosing said slots,

and a label adapted to be discolored by the immersion of the bottle inthe liquid to be contained therein, substantially as and for thepurposes described.

4. The combination with a bottle closed at the top and provided with ascrew-threaded neck with a plurality of small slots therein, of ascrew-threaded cap adapted to screw down over and close said slots, anda label adapted to be discolored by the immersion of the bottle in theliquid to be contained therein substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

ADOLPH ROSEDALE.

Witnesses:

J. H. PRESCOTT, II. II. PRESCOTT.

